At least smokers can still function mentally. Eisenhower comes to mind.
I would love to see a map of areas where it’s now legal to smoke pot and cross correlate it with crime, homelessness, and voting patterns.
Tyrants LOVE an impaired population. It’s why the Japanese let the Chinese have all the opium they wanted. And they rarely mess with the crap themselves.
“Tyrants LOVE an impaired population.”
They certainly do-the narco-Mafia both here and in Mexico, Colombia, etc manufactures and deals the drugs, but their own family members are forbidden from using and severely punished if they do...
The rural area I live in is remote, and odds are about 50-50 there is a meth lab on the road you live on. Meth dealers and cookers don’t use-they just produce and sell the stuff in the city. But people grow their own food out here and are hard working and active at all ages, so we have very few fatties-a lot of people smoke and there are plenty of drinkers but overweight, drug using or unhealthy people are rare.
On the legal side, look at the incredible increase in the number of people zoned out on prescription drugs from anti-depressants and psychotropics to hard core opiates-way worse than smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol or smoking pot. Liberal nannies don’t want you to look at the number of mass shooters who were/are taking those psychotropics for documented mental illness and still got a gun, either-they want to just grab all of our guns instead-but we’re supposed to trust them on the subject of what substance, food or drink we should be allowed to have?
I was taught by my parents to treat tobacco and alcoholic drinks just like a sugar laden dessert-a pleasure to enjoy if you choose-but do not overindulge-all things in moderation...
I do enjoy a glass of wine or a beer, and I might smoke 1-4 cigarettes-in the evening after dinner-I never indulge in adult beverages or tobacco during work hours-another lesson taught to me in childhood. I never developed a taste for sweets or a lot of carbs-I don’t eat any processed food so I have never been addicted to food and have weighed the same since age 17. I do not use prescription or illicit drugs-I only use supplements/natural remedies-and I will not tolerate any nanny statist in my face telling me what to do-just look what an obesity disaster we have because of that stupid low fat, high carb food pyramid they are still pushing, right along with drugs-no thanks-we all adults and should tell them to vete a la chin***-I’ll manager my own habits and self as I always have. If they want a new tax source, they should just let people have whatever substance they want, tax it and as long as no one sells drugs or alcohol to a person under the age of 18, then it is no harm, no foul-and no taxpayer funds for rehab, gastric bypass, etc-that is why insurance companies exist-choose a risk pool/appropriate policy and buy it yourself, just like working people like us do...